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Visitors, including children, watch as one Alaska Zoo bear tears into another in viral video
Yahoo • • nation
Key Points:
- A viral video from the Alaska Zoo shows a larger brown bear attacking a smaller one in a shared enclosure while visitors, including children, watched; the injured bear sustained moderate wounds and is expected to survive.
- The attack occurred last Saturday around 4 p.m., with a zoo keeper using pepper spray to intervene and separate the bears after visitors alerted staff.
- The larger bear, Izzy, is an orphaned brown bear from King Cove, while the smaller female bear was recently introduced to the enclosure after being housed separately since arriving last year.
- Zoo officials emphasized the inherent risks of housing powerful animals together and noted this was the first such incident at the zoo, which has since temporarily closed the brown bear exhibit for investigation.
- The incident highlights challenges in managing captive large predators and raises broader concerns about human-wildlife conflict and the care of displaced animals under human supervision.
